To be a Virtuous Wife

Chapter 44

Chapter Forty Four
Pointing at the Mulberry Tree and Swearing at the Locust Tree

Females tended to prefer subtle and graceful poems. Qu Qing Ju took the poems that Wei Qing E passed over. She casually took a look and saw characters for light wind, wispy smoke and others along those lines. She carelessly flipped through before handing them to Qin Bai Lu on her other side, "I feel all of these guniang have literary skill, but I am not skilled poetically. San dimei, have a look instead."

Qin Bai Lu took these poems that had been picked out by Jin An Princess. The one on top was the work of the third guniang of Chang De Gong Fu. A hint of ice appeared at the corner of her lips. She flipped through and said to Qu Qing Ju: "Er sao comes from a noble family. Even your fu's san guniang is this talented, why should you underestimate yourself?"

These words were somewhat harsh. Even though Rui Wang had the emperor's favour, he was still an younger brother. You, as a di mei, talking in this type of tone to your saosao, it was not having any respect. How was it that the Family Qing was an educated and literary family yet produce a woman of such conduct?

Jin An Princess' eyes jumped. She glanced at Qin Bai Lu before lowered her head to drink tea.

"My fu?" Qu Qing Ju giggled as she took out a handkerchief to wipe her mouth. Her voice was gentle as she lectured, "San di mei, it's not that saosao likes lecturing others, but your words are too improper. Us women, when we marry, we follow our husbands. My fu is wang ye's fu. San dimei, are you saying that I am not a member of the Imperial Family?"

This kind of words, even the empress couldn't say them, to say nothing of Qin Bai Lu as a dimei?

Qin Bai Lu finished listening to the speech and in her heart, she hated Qu Qing Ju for not leaving her a shred of dignity. On the outside, she could only smiled and apologize: "Er sao, forgive me. It's just my mouth got away from me. Saosao, please forgive me." Finishing, she stood to give a bow.

Qu Qing Ju didn't stand to return the bow but nodded instead: "Meimei doesn't have to be so courteous. There isn't that many protocols between us zhouli, but today, I had to say a word. Now, I am Duan Wang Fei, my mother is Qu Tian shi. Dimei, you can't get mixed up in the future.

The smile on Qin Bai Lu's face almost froze. She hadn't expected Qu Qing Ju to straightforwardly throw the Duke of Chang De aside. Thinking about the rumors involving Chang De Gong Fu and Duan Wang Fei. That the Duke of Chang De was a dissolute person, not yet one hundred days after his wife had died, he married a wife. That Qu Liang shi was not a loving mother and harshly treated the daughter of the previous wife, and didn't even care for the shu daughters, only being caring to her own daughter and her maternal family.

No wonder that everywhere in these past days were the previous scandals of Chang De Gong Fu. It was waiting here. Qu Qing Ju wanted to clearly express her attitude towards Chang De Gong Fu.

Many people had come today and in front of all these people, Qin Bai Lu couldn't throw a tantrum despite the great humiliation she endured. She could only sit with her suppressed rage. She handed the poems in her hand back to Jin An Princess: "Which one does Princess think is the best?"

Qu Qing Ju looked at her anger simmering under the surface and thought uncharitably that Rui Wang and his wife were naturally a couple. Their way of speech was not well-thought out and insulting. Their arrogant conduct was just asking for retaliation.

"Ben gong feels that the young ladies Qu and Lu are both good," Jin An Princess raised her head, "Who are these two guniang, come up to let ben gong see."

Qu Qing Ju looked at the guniang that came up to bow. Qu Yue Su was warm and beautiful to the eye, the Lu Family's guniang was thin and graceful. She was truly someone that would catch someone's eye. If she didn't guess wrong, this Family Lu's guniang should be the Great Scholar Lu Jing Hong's daughter, Yu Rong.